TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This study investigates how federal and state-level laws designed to reduce workplace sexual harassment relate to the content of sexual harassment training programs in a sample of private U.S. companies. To gauge the effect of the law on the regulation of sexual harassment, we draw on unique data containing information on federal and state-level legal environments, formal discrimination charges filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and establishment-level sexual harassment training initiatives. State-level legal regulation of sexual harassment at work is linked to more elaborate sexual harassment training programs, even when federal legal regulations are not. Our findings underscore the importance of state-level legal regimes in the workplace regulation of gender-based rights and provide an example for future studies of work inequality and the law.
VL  - 29
SN  - 978-1-78635-405-1, 978-1-78635-406-8/0277-2833
DO  - 10.1108/S0277-283320160000029024
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0277-283320160000029024
AU  - Kmec Julie A.
AU  - Hirsh C. Elizabeth
AU  - Skaggs Sheryl
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Workplace Regulation of Sexual Harassment and Federal and State-Level Legal Environments
T2  - Research in the Sociology of Work
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Work
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 215
EP  - 240
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -